Kirk Docker: How to Ask the Hard Questions

30 AprilWorkshop

Interrogate the art of the interview with Kirk Docker, interviewer and co-creator of ABC’s award–winning You Can’t Ask That. Is a ‘good’ question or interview in the preparation, the location or rapport-building, and how do you ask people things that are uncomfortable or personal? Kirk will take you through the art of interviewing so that you come away with answers that are real, compelling and unrehearsed.

Kirk Docker is a producer and show creator as well as the ‘Vox Pop King’, having interviewed thousands of people over a decade working in broadcast media. He created the iconic ‘black backdrop’ vox pop series for Andrew Denton’s Hungry Beast and more recently is the co-creator of ABC’s You Can’t Ask That and Hello Stranger. He works with a deep curiosity, compassion and playfulness to facilitate honesty from his interviewees, most of whom have never been interviewed before.